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I have named this page "GODS & MONSTERS" because it is devoted to the magicians and/or alchemists
("gods") and the villains ("monsters) -- and sometimes, they are both and the same. This family
tree derives from three very poweful historical figures, all alchemists themselves:

1) the first is Monsieur
Ming (real name: Ming Tai Tzu; a.k.a. The Yellow Shadow) who, according to
Henri Vernes' research, was the last imperial
child of a Chinese Dynasty of the 13th century. He trained in Tibet and was made immortal by the Aggartha. He travelled the world and built a criminal
empire, the Shin Than. He first encountered
Bob Morane
in 1959 in India. Later, he discovered the secrets of time travel, and was only thwarted by Morane when the latter was recruited by the Time Patrol of the future. Ming
has peculiar golden/amber-like eyes, the smiling face of the tiger, and cunning second to none. He has one recorded
"niece" -- Tania Orloff (see
below) -- implying that he has married and produced offsprings before.

We know that Ming took a particular interest
in medieval France, visiting it once in 1307, and twice c. 1350s in the medieval town of Mauregard, ruled by the
beautiful Yolande de Mauregard, looking
for the secrets of the alchemists. We also know that Dom Claude Frollo, the notorious archdeacon of Notre-Dame Cathedral, whose tale is told by Victor Hugo in Notre-Dame
de Paris, also had yellow eyes and was said to be in possession of Nicholas Flamel's alchemical secrets. Flamel, who had met Ming, died or disappeared in 1418. We therefore theorize that Ming was Frollo's ancestor,
and passed tre yellow eyes gene to his peculiar descendents.

One
of these was Armand Chauvelin, the notorious
nemesis of Sir Percy Blakeney, a.k.a.
The Scarlet Pimpernel (whose exploits
were recorded by Baroness Orczy). Philip
Jose Farmer theorized that Chauvelin married Marie
Gérard, the sister of Brigadier
Gérard (whose life was chronicled by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle). The Chauvelin
Dynasty was studied by other scholars, but we are only interested in one offspring,
Arlette, who had the misfortune of being
raped by the Frankenstein Monster (whose
name was Gouroull, as discovered by Jean-Claude
Carrière) and gave birth to a disfigured
son, Erik, who grew up to become the renowned
Phantom of the Opera (whose life was researched
by Gaston Leroux in his eponymous book).

While in the Far East, Erik fathered a
child with Nadia Strogoff, the sister
of Russian Captain Michel Strogoff, whose
exploits were recounted by Jules Verne.
That child grew up to become Alouh T'Ho,
who claimed to be related to T'seu Hsi and the throne of China, and who became the mistress of a sect that stole
other people's lifeforce, as revealed by Jean de La Hire
in the Nyctalope
saga.

During his stay under the Paris Opera, Erik
also had a fling with the woman Allard
a.k.a. L'Ombre and fathered the mysterious
bandit known only as Tenebras studied
by Arnould Galopin in Ténèbras le Bandit Fantôme (see the Rocambole family tree).

Meanwhile, Alouh T'ho first married the
notorious Oriental mastermind Dorje (whose
life was studied by Talbot Mundy in Jim Grim) and gave birth to Diana
Ivanovna Krasnow, the so-called "Red Princess" who went on to marry
Leonid Zattan as revealed by Jean de La Hire in the Nyctalope saga.

Alouh T'ho then moved
into Europe, and through various dalliances (including with a member of the Kramm family) became among the ancestors of two families:

- the Linge
dynasty of the Balkans -- whose modern-day Prince Malko Linge works for the C.I.A. under the alias of His Serene Higness, a.k.a. S.A.S., according to records produced by Gérard de Villiers.

- the Orloff dynasty, who include the
notorious surgeon Dr. Orloff (whose exploits
have been the basis of a number of motion pictures) and his daughter, Tania
Orloff, who was treated by Ming as his niece, and fell in love Bob
Morane (as recorded by Henri Vernes).

2)
the second is Dr. Pretorius, well-known
to student of the occult. We have theorized here that Pretorius is among the ancestors of a line of daring scientists that include Dr.
Moreau (whose exploits were revealed by H. G. Wells), Dr. Lerne (whose
life was chromicled in the eponymous novel by Maurice Renard), the "Mad Monk" Fulbert,
and the German scientist Glo Von Warteck
(a.k.a. Lucifer), both enemies of the Nyctalope, as per Jean de La Hire's
accounts.

More interestingly, Dr. Pretorius is also
one of the ancestors of the Kramm family,
the most notorious representative of which is Dr. Cornelius
Kramm, the so-called "sculptor of human flesh" and leader of
the criminal empire of the Red Hand, whose deeds were recorded by Gustave Le
Rouge.

3) the third was a participant at the
Wold Newton meeting of 1795
-- it is none other than Joseph Balsamo, a.k.a. Cagliostro, Arthur Gordon Pym, Monte-Cristo, Nemo, etc. whose offsprings with Josephine de Beauharnais are reviewed in the Rocambole family tree.

As per Alexandre Dumas's eponymous novel,
and William Kotzwinkle's Fata Morgana, we know that Joseph
Balsamo married successively two Italian mediums, first Lorenza
Feliciani then her sister, Seraphine Feliciani, who were both descendents of the Monteleone family (see the Black Coats family tree).

Joseph Balsamo had three children with
Lorenza Feliciani:

- another noted alchemist, Wilhem Storitz (likely conceived during Balsamo
and Lorenza's stay in Germany, before
his arrival in France) who eventually grew up to discover the secret of invisibility. Storitz, whose bizarre life was narrated by Jules Verne in Le Secret de Wilhelm Storitz,
is also among the ancestors of the Kramm
family (see above).

- a woman
whose husband was framed by the villainous Sinnimari,
who then raped her and abandoned her to die, and whose son, Robert Pascal, returned to avenge her as the "King of the Catacombs" dubbed the "Roi Mystère" (king Mystery), whose life was
recorded by Gaston Leroux in its eponymous
book.

- third but not last, a powerful warlock who was known in the early days of the 20th century as Quentin Cassave, and who was over two hundred years-old.
The story of Cassave, his capture of
the last surviving Greek gods, and of his doomed nephew Jean-Jacques Grandsire, is told in detail by Jean Ray
in Malpertuis. We have theorized that
a descemndent of Cassave was none other than the mystic dubbed the Sâr
Dubnotal, whose exploits were recorded by Norbert Sevestre.

Joseph Balsamo had two children with Seraphine Feliciani (who unlike Lorenza, did not die and later became known as the Countess Addhema, according to Paul Féval's
La Vampire):

- one was the superhumanly brilliant mystic Louis
Lambert whose quest to access to higher dimensions was recorded by Honoré
de Balzac in his eponymous book. One
of Lambert's descendents was the equally
powerful medium Gianetti Annunciata, who
became the Sâr Dubnotal's assistant.

- the other was a son, Zoltan Lajos, who
used the alias of Cagliostro (like his father) and Ric Lazare, and was unmasked by French detective Paul Picard (see
the Nyctalope family tree) according to William Kotzwinkle's Fata Morgana.
The evil Lajos married the equally evil
Renée Lazare, a daughter of the
amoral Chevalier Draxel whose life was
told by Etienne-Leon de Lamothe-Langon
in Le Diable.

Zoltan and Renée, in turn, fathered the evil genius who became known as Leonid
Zattan or Natas
who was defeated only thanks to the efforts of the Nyctalope (as recounted by Jean de La Hire)
and explorer Francis Hardant (see the Rocambole family tree)
in the City of Gold and Leprosy, as recounted by Guy d'Armen in La Cité de l'Or et de la Lèpre.

Zattan married Diana
Ivanovna Krasnow, the so-called "Red Princess" (see above), and
their descendents included first their son, Hugues Mezarek (a.k.a. Belzebuth), who also fought the Nyctalope, and Dr. Athanase Xhatan,
a mortal foe of Bob Morane.

Finally,
when Balsamo was using the alias of Monte-Cristo (before he became Nemo), he had several other children from his liaison with Greek princess Haydée
(as recounted by Alexandre Dumas).

- there was the Son of Monte-Cristo whose tale was told by Jules Lermina,
and the Daughter of Monte-Cristo whose
story was told by Edmund Flagg, and possibly
others.

- of greater interest was Mathias Sandorf,
whose story was recounted in detail by Jules Verne,
who in turn fathered the man who became known as the sub-mariner Captain Hyx, whose story was told by Gaston Leroux.